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Users / The LMCE story so far...

« on: December 03, 2008, 04:56:14 pm »

Just got moved in the new house. After sorting out all the network cabling, I've gotten 2 Atom MDs to work, one on a 42' LCD and the other on a 46', both using the VGA input. Only that it wasn't filling the screen properly. Out of desperation I ordered a $50 vga to hdmi converter on ebay, and now the screen is filled up nicely. Only that the 46' can only do 480p, bummer.

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Users / Re: D945GCLF2 Dual-Core Intel Atom motherboard network problem

« on: October 11, 2008, 08:23:58 am »

cyf4746,
Your setup is still using the r8169 network driver where it should be r8168. Maybe you can google how to build your default initrd to include r8168 not r8169. I've got another identical md to set up, I'll report how I got on with it.

Amirul

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Users / Re: D945GCLF2 Dual-Core Intel Atom motherboard network problem

« on: October 10, 2008, 04:01:35 pm »

cyf4746,
At what point did the boot process fail?

Amirul

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Users / Re: D945GCLF2 Dual-Core Intel Atom motherboard network problem

« on: October 09, 2008, 02:10:41 pm »

cyf4746,
Did you try what I did in http://forum2.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6253.msg37717#msg37717 ?

Good luck,
Amirul

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Users / Animated screensaver ok on Atom board i945

« on: September 24, 2008, 03:37:50 pm »

No lockups so far on both D945GCLF and D945GCLF2 boards. I set Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" in xorg.conf and Photo Screen Saver -> Max Size to 800. Will let them run overnight and check tomorrow. Is there a wiki entry for these boards yet?

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Users / D945GCLF2 S-video port

« on: September 23, 2008, 04:21:09 pm »

Just discovered the Dual-core Atom board has S-Video. Is it usable? Maybe I'll plug it into a TV and see...

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Users / Re: D945GCLF2 Dual-Core Intel Atom motherboard network problem

« on: September 19, 2008, 04:40:24 pm »

Yay, I got it to fully boot! I don't know exactly what I did but it began with messing with update-initramfs -uv. The verbose output didn't seem to list r8168. So I tried depmod -a, fail. Tried depmod /lib/modules/.../net/r8168.ko then update-initramfs, it got it listed but booting still fail. Did depmod -a again, update-initramfs got it listed and boot success!! Going thru the config right now...

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Users / Re: D945GCLF2 Dual-Core Intel Atom motherboard network problem

« on: September 19, 2008, 10:30:58 am »

Exactly what I thought Andrew. But the boot process didn't agree. However I've gotten further.
1. Download from Realtek source for r8168 and compile to r8168.ko
2. Rename r8169.ko to r8169.ko.old to get it out of the way
3. Add a line with r8168 into /etc/initramfs-tools-interactor/modules
4. Ran Diskless_BuildDefaultImage.sh to get new default initrd for tftboot
5. Reboot MD - and a new diskless media director is created, 96 in this case (yay!)
Then when the brand new MD is rebooted, get hit by the same r8169 showstopper. So I dig into 96/etc/initramfs-tools/modules and add line with r8168.
Do step 2 in 96/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/net/
Next utter the following incantation
cd /usr/pluto/diskless/
chroot 96
cd /boot
mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-`uname -r` `uname -r`
exit
With fingers crossed, reboot
Success? No, greeted by ipconfig: eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device
I was so close....

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Users / Re: D945GCLF2 Dual-Core Intel Atom motherboard network problem

« on: September 19, 2008, 03:52:25 am »

Thanks, followed the instructions at
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Realtek_8168
still getting link down message. Now my other diskless MD with the single core Atom board, after pxe booting, doesn't get past r8169.
Swapped back in the original r8169.ko, the single core is fine. The only difference I see between the 2 is that the dual-core has gigabit ethernet. Anywhere in the init scripts I can perhaps tell it to do only 100Mps?
Maybe I'll stick a disk with the dual-core and do a MD install to see how that goes

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Users / D945GCLF2 Dual-Core Intel Atom motherboard network problem

« on: September 18, 2008, 06:34:03 pm »

Set it up as a diskless MD. PXE boot ok, but somewhere along after that I get
r8169: eth0: link down. Google tells me this is a common problem. Found a likely fix at link below:
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/06/21/a-much-simpler-fix-for-the-r8169-link-down-problem
Seems to suggest updating to kernel 2.6.26-rc5. What do you think?

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Users / Intel Atom board video settings

« on: August 24, 2008, 12:18:24 pm »

Anyone have any info on video settings for Intel D945GCLF? I heard there were some tweaks to make it run better.

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Users / Re: Frozen orbiter UI problem

« on: August 16, 2008, 05:46:54 pm »

Ok then, I'll await what Monday brings. If this works out I'll be getting a bunch of cheap diskless Atom boxes for the new house.

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Users / Re: Frozen orbiter UI problem

« on: August 15, 2008, 07:22:38 pm »

Andrew,
Read your post about modding aviwizard to get the graphics chip detected correctly. Will that cure the freezing problem?

Amirul

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Users / Possible to use Hauppage Mediamvps as front-ends?

« on: August 11, 2008, 05:57:41 pm »

I've got 2 mediamvps that I hope I can use with lmce. Is there a decent how-to I can follow on how to use them as front-ends? I seem to recall during my first intro to pluto that it was possible. Hope I can figure this out before we move in to the new house in a couple months time.

Amirul

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Users / Re: Core Locking up, Most common causes

« on: August 01, 2008, 05:25:18 pm »

Andrew,
I see that the Intel Atom has arrived. Are you running the screen saver static to avoid locking up, or have you found a fix?

Amirul